Someone older and dear to me once told me that when JFK was shot, she responded, “Oh good!" “I didn’t like his politics,” she told me. “But I could never take that response back." Jesus calls us to love both our neighbors and our enemies.

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“Under ideal circumstances, the therapist is clearly, in the minds of both parties, hired by the patient. 🧵

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Commentary on the here-and-now is a unique aspect of the therapeutic relationship. There are few human situations in which we are permitted, let alone encouraged, to comment upon the immediate behavior of the other. - Irvin Yalom

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I agree. And have also been reminded over the years about how therapists can become evangelists for honesty and directness and how IRL, outside of individual or group therapy, it isn’t always called for in a given situation and can even be co-opted for self-serving reasons.

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